As the world’s second-largest supplier of telecommunications network equipment, Huawei plays a part in the technology industry’s efforts to ensure network security around the world. But last year, some U.S. lawmakers called Huawei a potential national-security threat and recommended that U.S. telecom carriers avoid using the Chinese firm’s equipment. Huawei denied the allegations, but the company’s equipment has been effectively shut out of the U.S. market.

The Shenzhen-based company, which supplies equipment to over 500 telecom carriers world-wide, has argued that allegations targeting specific suppliers based on nationality are not only counter-productive but they undermine efforts to solve actual cyber security issues. Threats to security are not defined by geographical borders, and cannot be simply attributed to specific equipment from certain countries, given the complex supply chain in the global communications industry, Huawei said. Read More »